Fire Virtue Immortal Clan

Chapter 206 Stable Development
The strength of the Linggu Sect is far superior to that of the Tianyan Sect, and the sect's attack methods are also quite strange. The Hong'e Mountains did not send any third-tier demonic beasts to the mountains near the Linggu Sect.

Lu Chengping and his two Daoist partners are all at the late Foundation Establishment stage. The effect of dual cultivation between him and his two Daoist partners is excellent. Now, the three of them are very close to breaking through to the peak of Foundation Establishment.

In addition, Lu Chengping was a second-tier high-grade spirit array master, so the three of them received special training from the Spirit Gu Sect.

Because Lu Cheng'an of the Lu family broke through to the Golden Core realm, and because Lu Chengyue was accepted as a personal disciple by the Ancient Desolate Sect's Master Kushi.

Therefore, the Golden Core cultivators of the Linggu Sect did not prevent Lu Chengping from continuing to contact the Lu family, and even supported Lu Chengping in maintaining relations with the Lu family.

Of course, this is because they did not know that the true relationship between Lu Chengping and his two Daoist partners was actually led by Lu Chengping; otherwise, the Golden Core cultivators of the Spirit Gu Sect would definitely have dissected Lu Chengping for research.

This is a very rare occurrence in the Spirit Gu Sect. In the past, male cultivators who were infected with the Deep Affection Gu never had a good ending.

However, Lu Chengping's situation is very different now. Even if Lu Chengping reveals his true situation, the Linggu Sect will not dare to kill him at will.

Especially after Lu Cheng'an displayed his formidable strength and terrifying talent for cultivation.

Lu Chengping's plan to return to the Lu family before the Azure Flame Lion and other third-tier demonic beasts entered the Burning Flame Mountain Range was approved by the Golden Core cultivators of the Spirit Gu Sect, but was rejected by Lu Cheng'an.

This was because the situation in the Burning Flame Mountains was unknown, and Lu Cheng'an did not want Lu Chengping to return and risk danger at that time.

The main threat to the Burning Flame Mountains comes from third-tier demonic beasts such as the Azure Flame Lion. Lu Chengping only has the cultivation level of the late Foundation Establishment stage, so even if he returns to the Lu family, he won't be of much help.

The crisis of monsters in the Burning Flame Mountains has been basically resolved. Lu Cheng'an asked Lu Chengping to come back at this time to see if Lu Chengping could repair the collapsed array patterns of the Sun and Moon Mirror Array, and also to ask him to set up more second-order spirit arrays in the Crimson Smoke Mountains.

Furthermore, he entrusted Lu Chengping with the Nascent Soul cultivation technique and the fourth-order array Dao inheritance for him to study and comprehend.

After Lu Cheng'an received the inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect, Lu Chengping never returned to the Lu family.

Although communication talismans and magical artifacts can transmit messages over long distances, the matter of the Burning Flame Sect's inheritance is far too important to the Lu family.

Lu Cheng'an was worried that there would be problems with the communication, so he had not told Lu Chengping about this news.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, what did True Person Chunqiu say? What is Yuan Hong's current situation? Has he been killed by the cultivators of the Desolate Ancient Sect?" Chongxu inquired.

This time, Master Chunqiu's stay at the Lu family was very short, and he only met Lu Cheng'an.

The fact that Lu Cheng'an asked them to leave Chiyan Mountain at this time must mean that Chunqiu Zhenren and Lu Cheng'an had discussed something.

“Yuan Hong is not dead. He possesses the power left behind by the Demon King of Hong'e Mountain Range. The Ancient Sect cultivators who were tracking Yuan Hong… and the Azure Flame Lion and other demonic beasts are seriously injured this time. They will definitely have to lie low for a while!”

Lu Cheng'an did not conceal the information about Yuan Hong that Chunqiu Zhenren had given him, but he did not tell Chongxu Zhenren about the compensation given to him by Huanggu Sect.

"No wonder Yuan Hong dared to venture deep into the territory of the Ancient Desolate Sect; it turns out that it was the Demon King of the Hong'e Mountains who made the move!"

Master Chongxu sighed softly. He did not waste any time. After parting ways with Lu Cheng'an, he organized the cultivators of Tianyan Sect to evacuate from Chiyan Mountain in an orderly manner.

After the cultivators from Tianyan Sect, including Master Chongxu, left Chiyan Mountain, the rogue cultivators and some cultivators from minor cultivation forces also left Chiyan Mountain one by one.

The cultivators from the smaller cultivation factions returned to their respective places, while many independent cultivators chose to remain within the Lu family's territory.

Lu Cheng'an ignored these matters and waited until all the cultivators left Chiyan Mountain before announcing his seclusion to focus on healing his injuries.

He was seriously injured by Yuan Hong before, but it shouldn't be that he hasn't fully recovered yet.

The reason he did this was intentional; even when he was injured by Yuan Hong, it was also because he did it on purpose.

The purpose was to make the Ancient Desolate Sect lower their guard against him and prove that his strength was not so formidable.

Since Master Chunqiu has already visited Chiyan Mountain, the cultivators from the Ancient Desolate Sect should not be coming to Chiyan Mountain again, so there is no need for him to continue pretending to be injured.

The Purple Bee Jade Emperor Pill sent by Master Chunqiu was indeed a superior healing pill, but Lu Cheng'an did not take it. Instead, he relied on the minor supernatural power of Returning Fire to Heaven to treat his injuries.

Lu Cheng'an has been practicing the minor divine ability of Returning Fire to Heaven for some time now, and he has successfully cultivated it to the entry level.

The power of the beginner-level Returning Fire to Heaven Technique is not particularly strong, but Lu Cheng'an is not in a hurry to heal his injuries. He also wants to take this opportunity to cultivate this minor supernatural ability to a higher level.

Lu Cheng'an had been in seclusion for less than half a month when Lu Chengping, who had received his message, rushed from the Linggu Sect to Chiyan Mountain.

Lu Chengping did not meet Lu Chengan. After arriving at Chiyan Mountain, Lu Wenxing, as instructed by Lu Chengan, had Lu Chengping repair the collapsed array patterns of the Sun and Moon Mirror Array, and at the same time handed over the array Dao inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect to Lu Chengping.

Lu Chengping was extremely shocked by the fourth-order array Dao inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect, but Lu Wenxing did not tell Lu Chengping the real reason.

This is because Lu Chengping is not currently at the Lu family home; he is cultivating at the Linggu Sect and also possesses the Linggu Sect's Deep Affection Gu within his body.

Even though Lu Chengping still maintains his own ideas, the Lu family dares not gamble.

If Lu Chengping is controlled by the Spirit Gu Sect later, it is possible that they will break through the information about the Burning Flame Sect's inheritance, which could very likely bring about the destruction of the Lu family.

Therefore, to be on the safe side, although Lu Cheng'an handed over the inheritance of the fourth-level spirit array master of the Burning Flame Sect to Lu Chengping, he did not intend to tell Lu Chengping any news about the Burning Flame Sect.

Lu Chengping wisely refrained from asking too many questions. After obtaining the fourth-order spirit array inheritance from the Burning Flame Sect, he began to devote himself to studying this inheritance and strive to improve his skills in spirit arrays.

The demonic beasts, such as the Azure Flame Lion of the Burning Flame Mountains, also calmed down. They no longer launched attacks on the territory of human cultivators by the demonic beasts and spirit races of the Burning Flame Mountains. Instead, they obediently retreated to the Burning Flame Mountains and worked hard to improve their cultivation.

Since third-tier demonic beasts like the Azure Flame Lion do not actively attack human cultivators in the vicinity, human cultivators naturally will not attack the demonic beasts of the Burning Flame Mountain Range.

Lu Cheng'an paid no attention to these external matters; he had been focusing on cultivating the minor supernatural power of the Returning Fire to Heaven Technique.

Time flies when you're cultivating; half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Lu Cheng'an successfully cultivated the minor supernatural power of Returning Fire to Heaven to the perfect state.

The main function of the minor divine ability, Returning Fire to Heaven, is to heal the injuries on a cultivator's body. After Lu Cheng'an cultivated this minor divine ability to perfection, he felt that with the help of this minor divine ability, the injuries he suffered from being hit by Yuan Hong could be completely healed within half an hour, which was much better than the effect of healing pills.

After Lu Cheng'an cultivated the minor divine ability "Returning Fire to Heaven" to perfection, he did not leave the cave, but continued to cultivate other minor divine abilities. He had only cultivated the two minor divine abilities, "Returning to Origin Fire Fiend Seal" and "Returning Fire to Heaven," and "Returning Fire to Heaven" was an auxiliary minor divine ability.

His current attack methods are too simplistic. If he had cultivated a few more powerful minor divine abilities when he fought Yuan Hong before, he wouldn't have suffered such serious injuries from Yuan Hong.

Lu Cheng'an chose to cultivate the True Fire Spirit-Suppressing Technique, which requires the activation of his Golden Core True Fire.

If he successfully cultivates this minor supernatural ability, it will cause great damage to the magical artifacts used by the enemy.

Because the True Fire Spirit-Binding Technique is a minor supernatural power designed to destroy magical artifacts and treasures, its power can cause great damage to the rune arrays inside these artifacts and treasures.

The True Fire Spirit Suppression Technique, a minor supernatural ability, also does not require external assistance, which is an important reason why Lu Cheng'an chose to cultivate this minor supernatural ability.

Lu Cheng'an is currently asking the cultivators he already knows in the Lu family to help him inquire about the fire elemental and spiritual flames that have reached a certain grade. Once he has collected enough fire elemental and spiritual flames, he will be able to begin cultivating minor divine abilities such as the Earth Flame Myriad Manifestations Body.

While Lu Cheng'an was diligently cultivating in his cave, the strength of Lu Chengping and other Lu family cultivators also made considerable progress.

After studying the spirit array inheritance of the Burning Flame Sect for so long, Lu Chengping made further progress in his spirit array skills and successfully became a second-tier top-grade spirit array master.

After that, he began to try to repair the collapsed array patterns of the Sun and Moon Mirror Array.

The Sun and Moon Mirror Array did not have many destroyed array patterns, and those that did were not particularly important.

With Lu Chengping's mastery of spirit arrays reaching the second-tier top grade, he was already capable of repairing the collapsed array patterns of the Sun and Moon Mirror Array.

In addition, Lu Chengping, following Lu Chengan's instructions, began setting up a second-tier spirit array on Chiyan Mountain.

Although Lu Chengping is a second-tier spirit array master, if he sets up a large number of second-tier spirit arrays in Crimson Smoke Mountain, the power of these second-tier spirit arrays can play a great role and there is a high probability that they can block the attacks of early Golden Core cultivators.

In the past six months, Lu Wenhua's cultivation has also made a breakthrough, advancing from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the middle stage.

When the demonic beasts of the Burning Flame Mountain Range, including the Azure Flame Lion, attacked the Crimson Smoke Mountain, Lu Wenhua and Lu Wenmei were not at the Crimson Smoke Mountain. They were guarding the Falling Phoenix Mountain and the Azure Spirit Mountain respectively.

Neither of these places were attacked by the monsters of the Burning Flame Mountain Range, so Lu Wenhua and his companion used their spare time to cultivate.

Lu Wenhua's cultivation talent was quite good, and with Lu Cheng'an's support, he was able to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage at this time.

Aside from Lu Wenhua's breakthrough in cultivation, the cultivation levels of other Lu family members, such as Lu Chengbai, who had fought against demonic beasts, also made significant progress.

Especially for cultivators like Lu Chengbai who are at the ninth level of Qi Refining, once they have digested the gains from this battle with the demonic beasts, they will be confident in attempting to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Lu Cheng'an was unaware of these matters; he had been diligently cultivating his minor supernatural powers in his cave.

After another six months, he cultivated the True Fire Spirit Suppression Technique to perfection.

The three minor divine abilities that Lu Cheng'an cultivated—the Returning Origin Fire Fiend Seal, the Returning Fire Returning to Heaven Technique, and the True Fire Spirit-Binding Technique—were all at the initial stage of perfection. If he wanted to completely perfect these three minor divine abilities, it would take him even longer.

Because the further you cultivate your magic and supernatural powers, the more difficult it becomes to improve them!

"Of the remaining minor supernatural abilities, only the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame, two divine soul secret techniques, can I cultivate now?"

Lu Cheng'an frowned deeply. The Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame, two secret soul techniques, were extremely difficult to cultivate and also extremely dangerous.

After all, the goal is to refine the power of the Great Sun True Fire to strengthen the soul. Unlike treasures like Soul-Nourishing Wood that naturally nourish the soul, the Great Sun True Fire will not cause any harm to the soul.

The power of the Great Sun True Fire is still extremely terrifying; a slight mistake could severely damage one's soul.

Injuries to the soul are difficult to heal, and once the soul is damaged, it will have a great impact on the cultivator's strength.

It was for this reason that Lu Cheng'an had never cultivated the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame, two secret soul techniques.

"Before cultivating the Great Sun Soul Refining Technique and the Great Sun Golden Flame, these two secret soul techniques, we need to prepare treasures like Soul Nourishing Wood to nourish the soul and avoid any danger!"

After considering it over in his mind, Lu Cheng'an finally gave up on cultivating these two divine soul secret techniques.

After thinking it over carefully, he left the meditation room and went to the weapon-refining room.

Lu Cheng'an had always wanted to improve his weapon-refining skills, but since his cultivation broke through to the Golden Core realm, time had become extremely tight, and he had no time to refine magical artifacts.

Even now, his weapon-refining skills are still at the mid-level of the second tier.

In the coming period, he planned to refine a batch of magical artifacts, improve his artifact refining skills to the third level as soon as possible, and then refine the two magical treasures, the Earth Flame Purple Gold Bell and the Seven Birds Divine Fire Fan.

Lu Cheng'an already possessed remarkable talent in crafting magical artifacts. When his cultivation broke through to the Golden Core realm, he found it easy to craft second-tier magical artifacts.

In less than a month, he improved his weapon crafting skills from the mid-second stage to the perfect second stage.

Lu Cheng'an had a lot of third-tier refining materials. After his refining skills reached the second tier perfection, he directly began to try to refine third-tier magic weapons.

The difficulty of crafting different third-tier magical artifacts varies, with artifacts like knives and swords being the easiest to craft.

The weapon-forging tradition of the Burning Flame Sect records many methods for forging third-tier magic swords. Lu Cheng'an chose a third-tier low-grade magic sword called the Golden Feather Sword.

The difficulty of crafting a third-tier magic weapon is far greater than that of a second-tier magic weapon, even though the Golden Feather Sword is considered relatively easy to craft among third-tier magic weapons.

However, five types of third-tier materials are required to forge this magic sword, while the number of first- and second-tier materials exceeds one thousand.

Lu Cheng'an had never forged a third-tier magic weapon before, and he carefully deduced the process when he forged the Golden Feather Sword for the first time.

After nine days of work, the third-grade low-rank Golden Feather Sword was successfully forged!

However, the quality of this Golden Feather Sword is relatively low, barely reaching the standard of a low-grade third-tier magic weapon.

(End of this chapter)